1. “Affluence means influence.”
2. “The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life”
3. “There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.”
4. “Age is never so old as youth would measure it.”
5. “The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.”
6. “In a saturated population life is always cheap.”
7. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
8. “Strength is an empty shell.”
9. “As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. there is less hurt because there is less to hurt.”
10. “The function of man is to live, not to exist.”
11. “Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.”
12. “Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.”
13. “It is good that a man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.”
14. “Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.”
15. “Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.”
16. “A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.”
17. “The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.”
18. “Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.”
19. “Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained animal world.”
20. “Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.”
21. “One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.”
22. “Too much is written by men who can’t write about the men who do write.”
23. “Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.”
24. “Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.”
25. “Some sorts of truth are truer than others.”
26. “The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.”
27. “The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.”
28. “I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.”
29. “The human race is doomed to sink back further and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.”
30. “A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.”
